Add support to connect to TOR nodes

[bumi]

This requires tor to be installed/running on the system

[bumi]

@aplnx I've updated LnMe and some Tor code.
Can you maybe test your setup with this branch? And do you maybe want to post and example on how you run LnMe and your required LND TOR config here?

[aplnx]

Hi! Yes, I can test the new TOR code. I will let you know as soon as I finish it.

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[aplnx]

Hi!

I am sorry for asking that, but what is the git command to get this specific branch?

I was testing things here, but I think I downloaded the wrong version...

[bumi]

I can send you a binary if you want - what system are you running on?

but I think you can do:

git fetch --all
git checkout -b tor-support origin/tor-support

[aplnx]

@bumi Hi, sorry for taking too long. This was not an easy week.

I managed to test Tor support. It is working perfectly!

The config.toml file I used is bellow

disable-website = true
disable-cors = false
request-limit = 5
port = "1323"
static-path = " <1>" # Blank means disabled

lnd-address = "abc...xyz.onion:10009"
lnd-cert-path = "/path_to/tls.cert"
lnd-macaroon-path = "/path_to/invoices.macaroon"

<1>: Check this out. If you do not specify a path here, then the webserver doesn't load the default front page.

Here is my lnd.conf with most important config lines for Tor:

# Your router must support and enable UPnP, otherwise delete this line  
listen=localhost
nat=false
rpclisten=0.0.0.0:10009
restlisten=0.0.0.0:8080

tlsextraip=<node_ip>
tlsextradomain=abc...xyz.onion

[Tor]
tor.active=true
tor.v3=true
tor.streamisolation=true
tor.socks=9050

Garbage issue: I also noticed that whenever you run the server it creates a new directory with a pattern such as 'data-dir-??????', where '?' marks are random numbers. I think this is because of the Tor support and, perhaps, it is a good idea to have a config option to delete this after turning off the webserver.

I hope it helps. Please, let me know if you need anything else.

By the way, is it possible for me to open a branch from your master so you can evaluate what I have done? How can I do that?

[bumi]

thanks a lot for testing and your feedback! this for sure is helpful for others trying to also use tor.

I create an issue for the tor datadir #12

you can fork this repository (here on github) and then your changes can be followed when you push to your GH repo and you can make a pull request